#and to that I'm sorry you couldnt appreciate what these other characters had to offer with their stories

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As much as a 'not a fan' I am about having the ending be both boys in Heaven, you know what they could have done if that was still the intended end goal?

Have one of them die when they're older.

Maybe Dean and Sam are semi-retired, but still go on the occasional hunt. Each of them are filling different functions Bobby used to, with Sam (and Eileen, providing research the patriarch and matriarch of a new MoL) meanwhile Dean will provide cover stories and point hunters towards hunts, although Sam finds hunts, too.

One day Sam finds a hunt and sends it Dean's way, saying they should do it. Yadda yadda yadda it ends with Dean dying, and in Dean's dying breath he absolved Sam of any guilt saying he lived a longer life than he ever thought and while this sucks, at least he had x amount of years to live by his own terms (let's say 20-something, since I bet Bobby was still hunting in his sixties)

And Dean still goes to Heaven, and he meets up with all his old family who've passed. Sam feels guilty, still (because of course Dean couldn't absolve all his guilt) but with Eileen and the rest of his family he finds the strength to keep fighting until his last breath of old age.

The beauty of this, too, is we can still have angel Cas. Whether in a relationship with Dean after Jack frees him from the Empty, or waiting up in Heaven for Dean to finally meet up with him and confess. Personally, I would like the former. Especially as it lends itself to Dean "not having any regrets". Dean meets up with Cas who is staying up in Heaven full-time since his passing and sees what he and Jack have done "So this is what you were doing when you said you were coming up to visit?" "I wanted to give you a truly wondrous afterlife, Dean." "I love you too, Cas." (Like, seriously, doing this can also circumvent why Cas wouldn't just bring Dean back to life even though he could - he knew Dean would pass in peace). Maybe there's a fight between Sam and Cas at Dean's funeral, Sam begging Cas to bring him back but Cas telling Sam that Dean has accepted his death and he should, too.

Then Sam makes it up to Heaven, whether Eileen passed earlier or not is up to whatever, but he appears by the Impala in front of the Roadhouse. Music is playing, and it sounds like Kansas, the band. Post-covid, Dean comes out followed by Cas and says they've been waiting for him, come on in and they can catch up. Pre-covid Sam walks in and we get a pan shot of all the dead characters we've lost along the way (and Kansas, don't forget Kansas!) And Dean is sitting beside Cas in the center of the room when he catches sight of Sam and his face lights up "You just gonna stand there for all of eternity or what?" Sam laughs and we get a backwards shot of him entering and the door swinging behind him both times. It's important we end outside the Roadhouse because then we get the drone pan up where we can see the Roadhouse, Baby, and a scattered set of houses around and -

Honestly, I've come up with at least ten different ways they could have fixed the finale. I know other people have given their two cents, too, and I doubt there won't be more. It's just... baffling, that we can do these and to this extent. That we can fulfill emotional beats left 'open', or improve upon those same beats they were insistent be included in the finale. Like it's not a joke that the series finale was a culmination of bad decisions and lazy writing under the guise of 'covid restrictions' and 'leaving it up to us to interpret'...

It all comes down to that freakin' nail!

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I would like to personally thank you for pulling me into vindell hell I'm finally finishing bones due to the pandemic so this is *finger guns* a-okay with me

vindell!!! holy shit!!! i still havent finished bones because as a psych major i feel personally victimized by what the bones writers did (which i wasnt when i stopped watching back in like 10th grade? i think? but still, its the principle of it all) damn i miss my boys vincent and wendell. sorry i probably am never gonna be writing any more for them at least for a very long time because its been years since i watched the show so my ability to write the characters is very weak and i really am only able to write about stardew valley anymore  but i appreciate that the work i put into that little ship is still goin strong!!! heres something: Vincent survives but only after hours and hours of intensive surgery (oh god imagining the medical bills physically hurts lets hope brennan throws in some money, hes gonna be like “crap why couldnt i have been shot back in england?”). all the other interns are there for him at the hospital but wendell hardly seems to leave his bedside. throughout the rehabilitation process wendell is always there for him too, wheeling him around the hospital, helping him learn how to walk again and eventually driving him back to his crummy apartment nearly all the way in annandale even though it was 4 pm and traffic was horrible. he cant live on his own anymore, at least not for right now, wendell immediately offers to rent an apartment with him ( “my lease is almost up and i hate my neighbors anyway, plus it will be cheaper than living on my own” ( he lied, his lease wasnt almost up)). Wendell helps him break his lease and move out of his crummy apartment to a new one in falls church and then continues helping him even more. He understands, he doesnt push him to do more physical therapy on the days where the pain in his back is worse, doesnt coddle him when he wants to do things on his own, doesnt push him to answer if he is ever going to go back to the internship or not. one day vincent turns off the tv, and turns to wendell and just asks “why?” of course, wendell doesnt really understand the question. vincent elaborates. wendell gets nervous and quiet for a moment. 

“we were good friends before, vincent, and then when i heard you got shot it felt like i did too. i really couldnt stand the thought lose you. I almost realized why way too late. I didnt want to give up any opportunity i had to spend more time with you, hear more of the random facts you have stored somewhere in your brain, at first it was mostly just reassuring myself you were still alive, but once that fear faded away i really just wanted to be close to you because youre my best friend, vince.”

“what did you realize?” vincent asks softly

“what?” wendell pales

“you said “I almost realized why way too late” what was it that you realized wendell?” 

wendell is sweating now

“um... uh... I guess you deserve to know... I dont expect you to feel the same way, its completely fine... I realized that I love you, vincent, romantically, and well, platonically. I didnt want to make things weird between us, im more than okay just being friends with you but i understand if now things are awkward and-”

“hey wendell?”

“huh?” wendell says nervously

“shut up for a second” he says curtly

“okay”

“can i kiss you?” vincent asks, sliding closer to the other on the couch.

wendell chokes

“what?”

“is it okay if i kiss you?” he asks, not wanting to just spring it on him, consent is always important

wendell cant figure out how to form words so he just nods shakily

vincent launches himself at wendell over the gap between them on the couch hissing a little in pain due to his blatant disregard of his own healing ribs and wounds. none of those things mattered right now though, because wendell loves him too, has loved him for months and now its time to make up for the lost time.